The Pacific in Wartime

Explosions on coast
U.S. Marine Corps

Fais Islanders try out a new custom: saluting the American flag. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
U.S. Navy

Four Fais men sort newly acquired American money with advice from U.S. Marines. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
U.S. Navy

Guadalcanal supplies: unloading beer at rations dump
U.S. Army Signal Corps

Hundreds of Marshallese natives, representing many atolls in these islands, staged an impressive ceremony on 4th of July, honoring American independence and their own recent freedom from the Japanese. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Cpl. A.B. Manell

Island images of military outsiders were shaped by American films and magazines that flooded the Pacific during the war. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
U.S. Navy

Island mess cook peels potatos [sic]
U.S. Navy

Jungle Trading Post: Cpl. Robert A. Weeks a former interior decorator the painter who now uses his talent to camouflage Leathneck [sic] mechanized equipment. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Tech. Sgt. M.E. Moran

Konedobu Village near Moresby. N. Guinea
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Line of Chamorros at Labor Office of Marine Civil Affairs hut. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
Heiberger

Local coastwatchers on guard at their post overlooking Noumea harbor receive a visit from a "liberty party" of sailors from the USS Enterprise.
U.S. Navy

Lt. Arnold L. Brown, 25, a Navy doctor is shown giving an injection to a native. [See "more images" below for complete caption]
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